Umpires Quotes - Page 9

• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  Calamity Jane

  California, San Francisco, Territory

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Home, Cities, Judging

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• I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

  Robert B. Parker

  Writing, Ideas, Long

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• On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

  Carson Kressley

  Thinking, Guy, Shows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

  John Arlott

  Bird, Stopping, World

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• One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• We do not judge great art. It judges us.

  Caroline Gordon

  Art, Judging, Do Not Judge

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• The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

  Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

  Judging, Important, Judgment

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• Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

  Jim Evans

  Baseball, School, Two

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• Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

  Orrin Hatch

  Writing, Justice, Judging

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.

  Sandy Alderson

  Jobs, Thinking, Ongoing

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• In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

  James Naismith

  Fields, Disputes, Cases

  James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.54, U of Nebraska Press

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• I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

  Bud Selig

  Sports, Football, Jobs

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• We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

  Peter Bondra

  Player, Ice, Games

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• You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

  Drew Curtis

  Games, Referee

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

  Lou Duva

  Fighting, Yelling, Caskets

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• A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

  Samuel Alito

  Law, Judging, Outcomes

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

  Michael Oxley

  Judging, President, Groups

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• Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

  Bill Griffith

  Artist, Years, Judging

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• You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Judging, Action, Individual

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• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  Waylon Jennings

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Judging

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• Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

  Jessamyn West

  Justice, Terrible, Necessary Things

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• Wherever art appears, life disappears.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Architecture, Disappear

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• I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

  Doug Ose

  Stupid, Smart, Mean

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• So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

  Robert Barclay

  Religious, Men, Liberty

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.230

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